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O. B. RANDALL.

PAPER SUCK.

No. 593,280. Patented Nov. 9, 1897.

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PAPER SOGK. No. 593,280. Patented Nov. 9, 1897.

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CHARLES BERNARD RANDALL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM BRERETON HUDSON, OF BEDFORD, ENGLAND.

PAPER SOCK.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,280, dated November 9, 1897.

Application filed April 5, 1897. Serial No. 630,879. (No model.) Patented in England December 3, 1895, No. 23,156, and in France November 17, 1896,1l'o. 261,356.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES BERNARD RAN- DALL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Coney Island Athletic Club,

Brooklyn, New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Sock for Protection of the Feet When alking, (for which I have received Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 23,156, dated December 3, 1895, andin France,

No. 261,356, dated November 17, 1896,) of

which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a sock for aifording protection to the feet in long walks or marches. This is efiected by I 5 forming a sock of peculiar construction of paper. The socks, cut and molded to the required form, should be worn within an ordinary cotton or worsted sock. After much experience it has been found, on long marches,

that by wearing a paper sock of this construction there is much less liability of the feet becoming chafed than when wearing socks of any other material.

Socks in accordance with this invention are made right and left.

The annexed drawings refer to a sock for the right foot.

Figure 1 shows a sock onafoot as itis Worn. Fig. 2 shows a piece of paper prepared to make a sock. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a sock formed from a piece of paper of the form shown at Fig. 2. Fig. A is a similar view of the sock when the end 0 of the flap B, which extends from one side of the rear end of the tubular portion of the sock, has been gummed to the opposite side. Fig. 5 is a side View of the sock shown at Fig. i. Fig. 6 is a crosssection on the line a b, Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a similar cross-section showing the fore part of the sock when molded or made without joint.

The sock consists of a tubular portion A, adapted to envelop the fore part of the foot, but open in front, leaving the toes free, and a strap B, attached to the portion A on the outer side and adapted to pass behind the heel of the wearer to the inner side, Where the end of the strap is attached, by gum or like cement, to the front portion of the sock.

It is preferred that the fore part A of the sock should be made in one piece without joint by known methods and that the strap B only should be attached by cement. A sock may, however, be made from a sheet of paper, preferably stout and porous brown paper, out in the form shown in Fig. 2, and then cemented together at the line a b by a spirit-cement, which is not affected by the heat and moisture of the foot. The end of the strap at c is gummed on its under side, and by this means when the sock isput on it is fastened in its place.

What I claim is A paper sock consisting of a tubular part A open at both ends and adapted to envelop the fore part of the foot leaving the toes free and a strap 13 extending from one side of the rear end of the tube and means for the attachment of the end C of the strap to the part A.

CHARLES BERNARD RANDALL.

Witnesses:

LLOYD B. WIGHT, B. W. MILLER. 

